Bulletin of the Oppression of Women September 14, 2011 - October 9, 2011
September 15, 2011 Pakistan. A 15-year-old girl was strangled to death by her uncle on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Anam, daughter of Ramzan. Police said that the deceased's uncle, Talib Hussain, who was residing at his brother-in-law's house, suspected that Anam had illicit relations with a Christian youth.
UK
A 17-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who had only been in Britain for four months took part in a gang rape and laughed as he humiliated the victim. Ahmed and an accomplice repeatedly raped the 23-year-old victim while on a night out.
September 16, 2011
Nepal
According to a study by the Foreign Nepali Workers Rescue Center 90 per cent of all Nepali migrant women are victims of sexual violence and exploitation in Arab countries where female migrant workers are routinely raped, beaten and not paid.
September 18, 2011
Pakistan
A total of seven women suffered acid attacks in the past two days in Faisalabad in separate incidents.
September 21, 2011
Pakistan
A Christian mother of five was raped by two Muslim men last week, and area Islamists are threatening to harm her family if charges against the suspects are not dropped.
September 26, 2011
Oslo, Norway
Four men have been charged with forcibly marrying a 16 year old girl to a 23 year old man.
September 27, 2011
Saudi Arabia A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for challenging a ban on women driving.
September 28, 2011
A Pakistani girl who says she was kidnapped and gang-raped faces a new threat: honor killings.
Egypt
A Christian girl was prevented for over a week from entering her school because she refused to wear a veil. The school described her as 'flaunt' for not covering her hair. Coptic students were forced to obey for fear of the school management's threats, but14-year-old Ferial Sorial Habib's family refused this decision because it is inconsistent with religious freedom and is a blatant Islamization of education.
Ferial was prevented from entering her school for eight consecutive days. Her father went to school on September 17 to protest this decision, but the school filed a police complaint against him on charges of libel and defamation.
September 30, 2011
Russia
Radicals in Russia have been bombing bikini-clad women to enforce Islamic dress codes.
Pakistan
In a woman's cell, barefooted, but decked up like a bride, 11-year-old Nadia told of how her father had bartered her off in 'marriage' to a man twice her age.
UK
A failed asylum seeker strangled and drowned a bakery worker who refused to marry him so he could stay in the UK.
October 1, 2011
Pakistan
A 12 year old girl is given in marriage to an 85 year old man.
October 6, 2011
Afghanistan
Ten years after British forces entered the war-ravaged country an eight-year-old girl was married off to a policeman for cash. She was sold to the officer in his twenties.
October 8, 2011
Pakistan
A man shot and killed his sister, niece and another relative and began dancing around the dead bodies in the limits of Langrana on Thursday evening.The accused, Aqil, dragged the three bodies outside to the street where he and his three accomplices began dancing around them and hurling abuses at the deceased. "They were spitting at the bodies and congratulating themselves over having killed the women because they had rejected their demands," said an eyewitness Mazhar.
October 9, 2011
Pakistan
Sixty masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls' school and thrashed students and female teachers on Friday.
The gang warned the inmates at the MC Model Girls High School in Satellite Town to "dress modestly and wear hijabs" or face the music, eyewitnesses said.
Iran
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic.
Vafamehr was arrested in July after appearing in "My Tehran for Sale," which came under harsh criticism in conservative circles. The film tells the story of a young actress in Tehran whose theatre work is banned by the authorities.
India
A victim marries her Muslim rapist. The victim faced sexual harassment for over four months and it was when she became pregnant that the girl's family came to know about her ordeal. The family approached the police but the fear of spending life behind bars forced the man to marry Sana.
"The girl became pregnant after she was raped by the boy, who kept in touch with her on a regular basis. On being questioned by her family, the girl broke down and narrated her ordeal, following which she was brought to the police station," Sector-20 police chief R. K. Shishodia said.
Nigeria
An Islamic cleric tricks women into having sex with him.
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